Elections panel sides with Rep. Steve Driehaus in abortion flap

8:00 PM,
Oct. 14, 2010

Written by

Jon Craig
jcraig@enquirer.com

COLUMBUS - U.S. Rep. Steve Driehaus won the first round Thursday in a battle to keep an anti-abortion group from erecting billboards accusing him of supporting taxpayer-funded abortions.

A three-member panel of the Ohio Elections Commission ruled Thursday that Driehaus' lawyers can begin taking sworn depositions from members of the Susan B. Anthony List, an anti-abortion group based in Washington, D.C.

Driehaus, a Democrat from West Price Hill, said his vote for health-care reform does not mean he supports federal money for abortions. Driehaus called that "a false statement" that the ...